Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
'Make a remark,' said the Red Queen; 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!' — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Three men riding on a bicycle which has only one wheel, I guess that's surrealism. — Dong Kingman Copy Share Image
Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism. — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“There’s only one woman left in the absence of thought that characterizes in pure black this cursed era.” — André Breton Copy Share Image
Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and… — Douglas McCulloh Copy Share Image
So delicate are our souls but it is us and inside us that with which we pull our bodies. No direction is… — Nicole Hill Copy Share Image
The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
“When we were young, we thought life would either last forever, or that we were going to die at any second. Everything… — Starlight Tucker Copy Share Image
Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
We didn't have MTV, and I was desperate for something. You know, you're young, you want something off the beaten path. And… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
“What is infinity? I haven’t a clue. But maybe that’s the whole point I’ve been attempting to explain to you. The fact… — F.K. Preston Copy Share Image
“Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words properly it… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
Let's say punk rock was described to you as 'three chords of rock music played roughly.' Would that be sufficient? If you… — Novala Takemoto Copy Share Image
Seine et Danube was launched in 2003 with the help of Romanian authorities who had finally realized the necessity of promoting literature… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
“In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a stylistically daring writer in love with surrealism, credited with being 'the woman who reintroduced hardcore sexuality to Bengali… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
It was an honor to work with Samantha Morton on this Casablanca-esque, silent-film-esque, Americana photobooth Woolworth's hay day period piece of surrealism/… — Alison Mosshart Copy Share Image
“You’re better looking than me. You’re more intelligent than me. Your personality is more likable than mine. You make more money than… — Jason Daniel Chaplin Copy Share Image
“One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
My cartoon strips in college strived to have the Schulzian mix of surrealism and Charlie Brown angst. A bit of that combo… — Bob Peterson Copy Share Image
“Everything leads us to believe that there exists a spot in the mind from which life and death, the real and the… — André Breton Copy Share Image
A constant human error: to believe in an end to one's fantasies. Our daydreams are the measure of our unreachable truth. The… — Floriano Martins Copy Share Image
Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it's all surrealism. It's all abstract. The world… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence… — John Updike Copy Share Image
We're living in a world where anything can be ART.(Looking out of my window I see a full moon so I took… — Sam Marcellin Copy Share Image
With 'Enter the Void,' I didn't know you could go to this place of surrealism in a movie. I felt sick when… — Karl Glusman Copy Share Image
We are proud of our ridiculousness. That's what made our Surrealism. Proud and ashamed of everything at the same time. I think… — Stromae Copy Share Image
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself… — Lepota L. Cosmo Copy Share Image
An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism,… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
“Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its reality. Fiction thereby becomes impossible or is,… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
